WBCs can be lower after cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation. There are five types of white blood cells, and each can be affected differently by cancer and its treatments. They are ...

Complications and Risk Factors Associated With a High WBC Count. Blood cancers and autoimmune diseases that cause overproduction of abnormal white blood cells can cause susceptibi ...

Since neither red blood cells nor platelets have nuclei, these patterns largely reflect gene expression in the various types of white blood cells. “But depending on which cells you have more of in ...

A nationwide team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and UPMC Children's Hospital of ...

Lymphocytes are white blood cells that help the body fight infection and disease. The healthy range for an adult is between 1,000 and 4,800 lymphocytes per microliter (µL) of blood. Doctors will ...

The Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center held a lecture on how certain white blood cells in the immune ...

A nationwide team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and UPMC Children's Hospital of ...

While most current research and immunotherapeutic strategies focus on other immune cells, such as T or natural killer cells, their findings highlight the importance of basophils in antitumor immunity, ...

Some cells do repairs if you get a cut. Red blood cells deliver oxygen and take away rubbish. And your white blood cells are like police looking for germs. There's a lot going on inside you!

In sharp contrast, the preleukemic mutations drove a pronounced increase in white blood cells in both control or stress conditions. The researchers believe that regular blood donation is one type ...